| netescapee:
Don't use the shock collar to get your puppy to like/tolerate your vet. Far better, kinder and humane would be to take her periodically to the vet to get weighed, sit with you in the waiting room, and get the vet techs to feed her cookies, pet and fuss over her. A common mistake people make is to only take the dog to the vet when the dog needs to be seen, and then they wonder why the dog isn't good at the vet's.
Have you taken Gracie to obedience classes? This will help.
The vet should have put a muzzle on your dog--it had to have been painful to have that device deep in an ear harboring an infection.
You should easily be able to teach your dog that biting, growling and snapping isn't an appropriate thing to do w/o resorting to an e-collar because at 6 mo, your dog is a puppy. |